GRE Word List
ENDEMIC
belonging or native to a particular people or country
The meaning of the word endemic is belonging or native to a particular people or country.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| chivalrous | valiant |